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* LifeSavingEncouragement: One teenage girl [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer was ostracized and ignored at school and in her church youth group]] and decided to end her life right before Christmas. Before going to the bridge that she planned on jumping from, she checked the family's mail and in the midst of Christmas cards from relatives, she also received one from one of the girl's in the youth group and in the card, the girl hoped that they would become friends. This ended up saving her life and she gained the friendship she always wanted.
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* LifeSavingEncouragement: One teenage girl [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer was ostracized and ignored at school and in her church youth group]] and decided to end her life right before Christmas. Before going to the bridge that she planned on jumping from, she checked the family's mail and in the midst of Christmas cards from relatives, she also received one from one of the girl's girls in the youth group and in the card, the girl hoped that they would become friends. This ended up saving her life and she gained the friendship she always wanted.
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* SurprisinglyMundaneReason: One story from a ''Teenage Soul'' edition has a young woman who suffers from such a severe eating disorder that she ends up hospitalized. While her doctors, family members, and others try Teefind out the underlying cause of her illness (believing it to be the "typical" causes, i.e. depression, peer pressure, etc.) to the point of frustration, the girl's reason was "I just wanted to be skinny".
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A long time ago, in 1993, ''Chicken Soup for the Soul'', an anthology of stories compiled by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, was published. They chose the included tales based on their inspirational and motivational value, and they chose the book's title for the reputation of chicken soup as a [[SoupIsMedicine rejuvenating home remedy for various ills]] and for the desire to market the book as comfort food for the human spirit. ''Chicken Soup for the Soul'' was a great success to the point where it became the #1 ''New York Times'' bestseller. Its popularity then inspired ''multiple'' spin-off anthologies, all listed [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chicken_Soup_for_the_Soul_books on an entire page]], courtesy of Website/TheOtherWiki.
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A long time ago, in 1993, ''Chicken Soup for the Soul'', an anthology of stories compiled by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, was published. They chose the included tales based on their inspirational and motivational value, and they chose the book's title for the reputation of chicken soup as a [[SoupIsMedicine rejuvenating home remedy for various ills]] and for the desire to market the book as comfort food for the human spirit. ''Chicken Soup for the Soul'' was a great success to the point where it became the #1 ''New York Times'' bestseller. Its popularity then inspired ''multiple'' spin-off anthologies, all listed [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chicken_Soup_for_the_Soul_books on an entire page]], courtesy of Website/TheOtherWiki.
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* DownerEnding: Possibly one of the saddest features in the books, the poem "Help Me, Mama", had a young girl who was beaten so badly by her father, that she was both hospitalized and left unable to speak to tell the doctors and nurses what happened. Even worse, it's implied that her mother, who she repeatedly is crying out for, has been killed by the father herself.
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* HospitalVisitHesitation: In one edition of ''The Teenage Soul'', the story "Role Reversal" had a college-aged woman visit her mother, who was in a devastating car accident. After being briefed by the doctor of her injuries and her grandmother requesting her not to cry in her presence, she tries to visit with her mother, but the state of her and valid realization that she could die soon overwhelms her, and she [[RunningAwayToCry runs out the room to cry]].
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* DrivesLikeCrazy: One story features a teenage boy who was speeding after being able to drive the family car. Unfortunately, it ends with him crashing and killing himself and he being able to see the aftereffects that his death caused.
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* HospitalVisitHesitation: In one edition of ''The Teenage Soul'', the story "Role Reversal" had a college-aged woman visit her mother, who was in a devastating car accident. After being briefed by the doctor of her injuries and her grandmother requesting her not to cry in her presence, she tries to visit with her mother, but the state of her and valid realization that she could die soon overwhelms her, and she [[RunningAwayToCry runs out the room to cry]].
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* SickbedSmuggling: One ''Teenage Soul'' story had a high school girl sneak a box of cherry cordials to her [[PlatonicLifePartners best male friend,]] who was terminally ill in the cardiac ward and forced to eat "mushy-looking food".
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* TeensAreMonsters: Plenty of stories feature teenagers who are vicious bullies or just overall jerks.
** "You Kiss Like a Horse" had a girl bullied because she dared to be liked by a popular senior. After months of harassment, when she finally confronted the guy, he dismissed her and pretended it wasn't his problem.
** "For A Good Time, Call..." had an innocent freshman girl have lewd and slanderous graffiti written on a boy's room stall about her and endure years of sexual harassment, bullying, and even the school principal refusing to believe her since he believed she "caused" it. It didn't get resolved until she finally told her parents, who confronted said principal and then contacted a lawyer, threatening to sue him and the school personally.
** "You Kiss Like a Horse" had a girl bullied because she dared to be liked by a popular senior. After months of harassment, when she finally confronted the guy, he dismissed her and pretended it wasn't his problem.
** "For A Good Time, Call..." had an innocent freshman girl have lewd and slanderous graffiti written on a boy's room stall about her and endure years of sexual harassment, bullying, and even the school principal refusing to believe her since he believed she "caused" it. It didn't get resolved until she finally told her parents, who confronted said principal and then contacted a lawyer, threatening to sue him and the school personally.
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* WhamLime: In "I Never Knew":
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* WhamLime: WhamLine: In "I Never Knew":Knew", after the author is called into the principal's office:
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-->''And then my world froze in time with the words, "...and Cindy took her own life last night using her father's gun."''
-->''And then my world froze in time with the words, "...and Cindy took her own life last night using her father's gun."''
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* BrokenAce: One story from one of the ''Teenage Soul'' editions had a girl whose best friend was a beautiful, talented, intelligent and popular girl who had so much going for her and had many people look up to her. It eventually comes out that the girl was suffering from loneliness, depression, was experimenting with drugs and became more promiscuous, none of which the best friend knew about until reading the girl's journal [[spoiler:after committing suicide. She also learned that she was being molested by her father for several years (and why she was a frequent visitor at the girlfriend's home) and feeling she had no where to go and could not escape it, she did what she did.]]
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** One story from one of the ''Teenage Soul'' editions had a girl whose best friend was a beautiful, talented, intelligent and popular girl who had so much going for her and had many people look up to her. It eventually comes out that the girl was suffering from loneliness, depression, was experimenting with drugs and became more promiscuous, none of which the best friend knew about until reading the girl's journal [[spoiler:after committing suicide. She also learned that she was being molested by her father for several years (and why she was a frequent visitor at the girlfriend's home) and feeling she hadno where nowhere to go and could not escape it, she did what she did.]]
** Another story had two high school best friends share a FriendlyRivalry about who had the best life, grades, girlfriends, etc. After they graduated, they gradually drifted apart with the one friend growing despondent over his lackluster life of not living up to his previous potential and his premature hair loss and starts smoking weed to cope. He's terrified to be back in contact with his friend, believing that he's living his dreams, only to learn from another friend that his life had gotten ''much'' worse; he had been [[spoiler: diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and had spent the past several years routinely hospitalized over it.]]
** One story from one of the ''Teenage Soul'' editions had a girl whose best friend was a beautiful, talented, intelligent and popular girl who had so much going for her and had many people look up to her. It eventually comes out that the girl was suffering from loneliness, depression, was experimenting with drugs and became more promiscuous, none of which the best friend knew about until reading the girl's journal [[spoiler:after committing suicide. She also learned that she was being molested by her father for several years (and why she was a frequent visitor at the girlfriend's home) and feeling she had
** Another story had two high school best friends share a FriendlyRivalry about who had the best life, grades, girlfriends, etc. After they graduated, they gradually drifted apart with the one friend growing despondent over his lackluster life of not living up to his previous potential and his premature hair loss and starts smoking weed to cope. He's terrified to be back in contact with his friend, believing that he's living his dreams, only to learn from another friend that his life had gotten ''much'' worse; he had been [[spoiler: diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and had spent the past several years routinely hospitalized over it.]]
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* {{Jerkass}}: Several people in the stories were either this or in contact with these. One story had a teenage girl like a student who subsequently humiliated her at a party for refusing to drink alcohol and then laughing at her with the rest of the party when she did drink to fit in and quickly got sick from it.
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* MyGreatestFailure: Many stories express regret at a tragic and often life-altering decision. One story had a young man kill his best friend in a drunk driving accident and was left with so much guilt over this that he eventually dropped out of high school.
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* YankTheDogsChain: Sadly, plenty of stories involve someone whose life seemed to be going well, only for tragic circumstance to intervene. One story had a woman named Karen whose husband abandoned her and their two children end up with a promising life as a gospel singer and a youth pastor and the children thriving in school only for the son to be killed by a drunk driver.
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* HospitalVisitHesitation: In one edition of ''The Teenage Soul'', the story "Role Reversal" had a college-aged woman visit her mother, who was in a devastating car accident. After being briefed by the doctor of her injuries and her grandmother requesting her not to cry in her presence, she tries to visit with her mother, but the state of her and valid realization that she could die soon overwhelms her, and she [[RunningAwayToCry runs out the room to cry]].
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* HappilyFailedSuicide: A recurring theme in many stories of people who contemplated suicide or had an InterruptedSuicide attempt but then realized life was worth living after all.
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* HappilyFailedSuicide: A recurring theme in many stories of people who contemplated suicide or had an InterruptedSuicide attempt but then realized life was worth living after all.
